The other way of saying that is that crypto algorithms optimised for modern chipsets are very efficient. Google folks would know best, of course, since power is maybe their most significant operating cost. Maybe "encrypt everything" is okay these days......

Except this rather depends on how exactly your OS performs memory management. They haven't naively passed about unintialised memory like this for years - linux always reuses the same memory, macs always zero-out, so neither is actually vulnerable by default....

It's actually not trivial, because you need to have a single certificate that is valid for all of the hosts running on it. You don't have to do that if you use SNI and most browsers support it (IE on...

Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Because it is. It conforms to the UNIX 03 specification. It's a bit unusual (BSD userland running on top...

a single-button mouse? :-| Er, yes? That's been a hallmark of Macintosh design for decades. Apple wanted to avoid confusion for novice users using a new input device and also to prevent developers from hiding functionality in the context menu....

However, speaking of Off-Ice 2007 and later interface, did you know that ctrl+$key still does whatever it used to in earlier versions? It's just that Mickeysha@ft have removed all the hints! Office 2010 on Windows shows keyboard shortcuts on button...

And from Word for Windows 2.0 onwards, circa 1990, the bloat began to creep in, culminating in Word 6.0, which was a rebranding release that brought Word for Mac and Word for Windows into step version-wise and feature-wise (circa 1991/92,...

My biggest problem is with the ribbon interface. I understand that it's designed for a touch device, but for all other users it's a major step backwards. The average formatting task now takes two or three extra mouse clicks, provided...

The impact of this is being tested in fisheries protection where smaller vessels are deliberately avoiding naval and coastguard surveillance. Missing a complete carrier fleet sounds increasingly implausible. Part of what Ark Royal did was hide in plain sight: apparently...

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I'd say this is off-topic, but I'm not sure there really is one, and we've discussed the one-way trip to Mars here before. Colorado man may be headed to Mars — for good The father is an acquaintance (and CS prof at the Air Force Academy). Somehow I don't think he needs to worry about his son dying on Mars....

Hi, Great to hear you're turning on HTTPS. I know it is a hassle - however after the last year, turning on HTTPS is a service to everyone that visits your site. Recent revelations have shown that anything that is not HTTPS can be used to inject attack vectors against users. (See this op-ed for more info: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/15/cat-video-hack/) Cheers...

There's a bit of "well duh!" about that article. It completely elides over the assumption that all browsers are as porous as Swiss cheese and that attack vectors based around browser and plug in vulnerabilities will be successful. The main point it is making is an obvious one that has nothing new about it, other than that some commercial companies are selling appliances that do this for allegedly legitimate purposes. Which only leads you to wonder about the IT security industry and the notion of white hats and their ilk. Certainly the dominant skill-set seems to be around spreading fear...